Dongting

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洞庭 (Dòngtíng).

• IPA^(key): /dɔŋ.tɪŋ/, /dɒŋ-/

Dongting

1. A lake in Hunan, China.
   • [1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎, volume I, number 2, Canton, OCLC 1554371, page 39:

     The Tung-ting-hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yang-tsze-keang. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting-hoo to the city of Woo-chang-Foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yang-tsze-keang lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, north and south of the lakes.]

   • [1833 [June 1832], Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎, volume I, number 2, Second edition, Canton, OCLC 1554371, page 39:

     The Tungting hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yangtsze keäng. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting hoo to the city of Woochang foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yangtsze keäng lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, meaning north and south of the lakes.]

   • [1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 11, LCCN 68-10064, OCLC 1036882, page 902, column 1:

     The Yangtze and its chief tributary, the Han, meander in great loops past a maze of shallow lakes, the chief of which, the Tung-t'ing Hu, lies just south of the border of Hunan.]

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